CSCE488: Computer Engineering Professional Development


Class Time: 8:30A.M. – 9:20A.M., M.W.

(except for Week 1 of the semester with a Friday class on January 15)
Class Location: 111 Avery Hall
Office hours: 2:00 P.M. – 3:00 P.M., M.W.
Instructor: Dr. Hong Jiang; Office Location: 103 Schorr Center, 472-6747; jiang@cse.unl.edu

Teaching Assistant: Yutaka Tsutano, Office Location & Contact: 104 Avery Hall & ytsutano@cse.unl.edu

TA Office Hour and Location: 2:30-3:30PM at Student Resource Center, Avery Hall

 

 

Syllabus   Course Schedule  Late Policy  Important Resources  Useful Info  Project Teams   Homework  Grade Status

Required Textbook :  Inviting Disasters: Lessons from the Edge of Technology by James R. Chiles, Collins; Reprint edition (September 1, 2002), ISBN: 0066620821.  (Link to the book on Amazon.com and at the publisher's website)

 

Useful Info: Many reference materials on oral and written communication exist. You may already have come across some good sources in AgLec 200. Here are a few that I can recommend:

Companies:

Acknowledgment: Special thanks to Profs. Sharad Seth, Lisong Xu, Witawas Srisa-an, and Stephen Scott at UNL for their lecture notes and help.


Late Policy:  Homework will be due in class, before the beginning of the class. Late homework will be accepted until the following Friday, with 10% penalty per day.

Important Resources:

Tentative Course Schedule:

Date

Topics

Assignment Date

Due Date

1/11

Course Syllabus

HW 1 (written)

 

1/13

Getting Started with Projects

 

 

1/15

Guest lectures: 488/489 & 486/487 Projects of Fall09/Spring10, Dr. Vuran & Dr. Samal (slides on blackboard)

 

1/20

Microsoft Imagine Cup Workshop

1/25

Team formation and project ideas;

Video: The Challenger: Untold Story

HW 2 (oral)

HW1

1/27

Video: The Challenger: Untold Story (cont’d);

2/1

DARPA Sponsored Great Robot Race

 

2/3

Professional Ethics, guest lecture by Steven Swartzer, Assistant Director, Robert J. Kutak Center for the Teaching & Study of Applied Ethics

2/8

HW2 Team Presentations

HW 3 (oral)

HW2

2/10

Project ideas brainstorming session

 

2/15

Team weekly meeting

HW 4 (Project Pre-proposal & Mini-project Proposal)

 

2/17

HW3 Team Presentations

 

HW3

2/22

Team weekly meeting

 

3/1

HW4 Team Presentations

 

HW4

3/8

Team weekly meeting

HW5

 

3/22

Team weekly meeting

 

3/29

Team weekly meeting

 

 

4/5

Team weekly meeting

 

 

4/12

Team weekly meeting

 

 

4/19

Team weekly meeting

 

 

4/26

Team weekly meeting

 

 

4/28

HW5 Team Presentations

 

HW5

 

 

Project Teams:

Team Name

Names of Team Members

Weekly Meeting Time & Place

Team A:

Blake Anderson, Austen Bryan, Tyler Hawkins, Kyle Schaffer, Joshua Wong

10:30am, Monday, 112 Schorr Center

Team B:

Corey Jergensen, David Jessen, Hima Korandla, Kyle Maguire, Samuel Way

8:30am, Monday, 112 Schorr Center

 


Summary of Homework:

1. (Individual) Written report on technical research, due on Monday, January 25, 2010

10%

2. (Team) Reading comprehension, oral presentation, and leading technical discussion (based on the textbook), due on Monday, February 8, 2010

15%

3. (Team) Oral critique of old project reports, due on Wednesday, February 17, 2010

10%

4. (Team) Written pre-proposal for the CSCE 487/489 project and description of the CSCE 486/488 mini-project, due on Monday, March 1, 2010

25%

5. (Team) Oral presentation of the project pre-proposal and mini-project implementation

30%

6. (Individual) Classroom participation in discussion on professional ethics, etc. (Your attendance is a part of this)

5%

7. (Individual) Progress Assessment Test (PAT)

5%